Jerold Oshinsky is leaving the partnership of Washington DC’s Gilbert Oshinsky, to join the Los Angeles office of Jenner & Block. The firm will now be known as Gilbert LLP. Oshinsky was the firm’s only Los Angeles partner, and that office will now close. Gilbert LLP is expanding, with the return of one former partner and the new [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 16, 2009
The law firm of Moore, Walters, Thompson, Thomas, Papillion & Cullens has lost four name partners, and is now Moore, Thompson, Lee & Broyles. It is comprised of Charles R. Moore, Steven C. Thompson, S. Layne Lee and Patrick N. Broyles. The former partners have launched a new firm, Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens. They are Edward [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Freshfields has lost two top partners, both of whom joined the firm from White & Case less than two years ago. Maurice Allen is one of the UK’s top banking lawyers, having worked at Clifford Chance and Weil Gotshal. He and Mike Goetz joined Freshfields in March 2008. The firm describes the split as amicable — but [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
According to sources, Clifford Chance has lost almost 50 partners since March of this year, most from New York City and the London headquarters office. Eighteen partners have left the firm in London, and another 18 in New York. Twelve have jumped ship in Europe. Clifford Chance is restructuring, and expects to lose 90 further partners, or [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
At least seven lawyers have walked out of the Voorhees, New Jersey office of Philadelphia-based Ballard Spahr. Five came from the real estate practice. The lawyers, led by office managing partner Benjamin Levin, are apparently striking out on their own. Other names include partners Richard Hluchan, William Hyland Jr. and Mark Shapiro and senior counsel Harvey [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Clifford Chance, which has been bleeding litigation partners, just lost two more. Securities litigators Joel Cohen and George Schieren will depart the firm’s New York office. At the end of last month, Mark Kirsch, the head of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice, announced his departure, leaving the 29 associates in the firm’s New York litigation group under [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Two senior partners at Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray have quit to join crosstown rival Anderson Strathern. John Biggar, a former chairman of Tods Murray, and partner John Fulton left the firm last month. Tods Murray LLP was founded in 1856 as Tods Murray & Jamieson. It is based from an award winning modern office at Edinburgh [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
DLA Piper is both bringing on new partners, and letting others go. Five partners have left the firm in the last month, from the real estate, tax, corporate and projects practices. Twenty-five partners have left so far this year, while 32 new partners have been appointed. In May, DLA Piper laid off 24 lawyers and 100 support [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Davis Polk, home of stealth layoffs, will permanently close its office in Frankfurt, Germany in August. The office’s long-time resident partner, Patrick Kenadjian, is retiring at the end of the year. His successor, Harald Halbhuber, has decided to leave the firm as well. Much of the office’s work will be taken over by Davis Polk’s 31-lawyer London [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Founding partner Thomas Kummer and managing partner Michael Bonner are leaving Las Vegas, Nevada’s Kummer Kaempfer, after the collapse of merger talks with Greenberg Traurig. Bonner, along with other partners and staffers, will jump ship to Greenberg Traurig’s 30-lawyer Vegas office in June. Bob Gronauer will take over as Kummer Kaempfer’s managing partner. This year, Kummer Kaempfer [...]
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